Fatalism as an Animistic Attribution Process

Following the perspective of Heider, fatalistic thinking is analyzed as an example of "naive" or "implicit" social psychology. "Garden variety" forms of fatalistic explanations are shown to be attribution errors where the nature of the error is perceiving "natural&...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Journal of mind and behavior 1984-07, Vol.5 (3), p.351-361
1. Verfasser:	Shaffer, Leigh S.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animism Attribution theory Causality Causation Cognitive psychology Determinism Fatalism Metaphysics Personalism Social psychology
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